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One Hundred Years of General Relativity From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity(In 2 Volumes)

By Wei-Tou Ni (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

Pub Date: May 2017Binding: Hardcover setISBN: 978-981-4635-12-7Price: £206Page Extent: 1100ppType: Review VolumeMain Subject: PhysicsSub-subjects: Astronomy, Astrophysics And Cosmology (Including Geophysics); Mathematical Physics; Relativity And Gravitation BIC: PGBISAC: SCI005000; SCI015000; SCI061000Keywords: General Relativity; Gravitation; Gravitational Waves; Cosmology; Quantum Gravity Imprint: World Scientific Publishing CompanyReadership: Graduate students and researchers interested in general relativity.

Key Features:• Its balanced treatment of the subject from both empirical and theoretical points of view• Its balanced treatment of introductory and advanced materials• Each chapter is written by author(s) well known in its field

Description:The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to astrophysics and cosmology. The series focuses on five aspects of the theory:

• Genesis, Solutions and Energy• Empirical Foundations• Gravitational Waves• Cosmology• Quantum Gravity

The first three topics are covered in Volume 1 and the remaining two are covered in Volume 2. While this is a two-volume title, it is designed so that each volume can be a standalonereference volume for the related topic.

Contents:• Volume 1:

• Genesis, Solutions and Energy:• A Genesis of Special Relativity (Valérie Messager & Christophe Letellier)• Genesis of General Relativity: A Concise Exposition (Wei-Tou Ni)• Schwarzschild and Kerr Solutions of Einstein’s Field Equation: An Introduction (Christian Heinicke

& Friederich W Hehl)• Gravitational Energy: A Covariant Hamiltonian-Gauge Theory Perspective (Jiang-Mei Chen, James

Nester & Roh-Suan Tung)• Empirical Foundations:

• Equivalence Principles, Spacetime Structure and the Cosmic Connection (Wei-Tou Ni)• Cosmic Polarization Rotation: An Astrophysical Test of Fundamental Physics (Sperello di Serego

Alighieri)• Clock Comparison Based on Laser Ranging Technologies (Étienne Samain)• Solar-System Tests of Relativistic Gravity (Wei-Tou Ni)• Pulsars and Gravity (R N Manchester)

• Gravitational Waves:• GW: Classification, Sources and Methods of Detection (K Kuroda, & W-T Ni)• Introduction to Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detectors (K Kuroda)• GW Detection in Space (Wei-Tou Ni)

• Volume 2:• Cosmology:

• Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy (Martin Bucher)• Cosmic Structure (Marc Davis)• Gravitational Lensing in Cosmology (Toshifumi Futamase)• Cosmic Inflation (K Sato and J Yokoyama)• Inflation, String Theory and Cosmic Strings (David Chernoff & Henry Tye)

• Quantum Gravity:• Perturbative Quantum Gravity Comes of Age (R Woodard)• Black Hole Thermodynamics (S Carlip)• Loop Quantum Gravity (Dah-Wei Chiou)